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   pes·ti·lence

   /ˈpestələns/

   noun

   • 1. a fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague: archaic "neither prayers nor demonstrations halted the advance of the pestilence"

   Word Origin Middle English (also denoting something morally corrupting): from Old French, from Latin pestilentia, based on pestis ‘a plague’.

   Scrabble Points: 14

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